Chalk pastel can be a difficult medium to work with but in skilled and confident hands it produces beautiful and interesting surfaces from which images emerge. Craig handles this medium very well and provides interesting viewing with his two subtly different pictorial styles.

The majority of exhibits involve well observed native flora and bird life drawn with visual accuracy. Craig's domestic chooks are lively, his floral studies colourful and the series Sunset certainly displays an ability to capture mood and atmosphere. The artist is able to evoke soft feathers of fowl, rough bark of tree and the stretched twang of fencing wire with equal alacrity in compositions that suggest all's well with nature. Or is it? Amid this reflected reality some images hint at a crack in the mirror.

One example is Home Territory where a perfectly rendered kookaburra is perched on a weathered fence post along side an old tree with its large limbs cut off. There is no back ground, no bush, no sky, no placing the scene in nature. The three disparate objects are connected by colour and compositional placement yet they seem isolated, suspended in time and a vast empty space. Despite the absence of a human figure the image suggests the presence of man and his impact on nature. We can see the work as simply a pretty picture or employ lateral thinking and see it as an equivalent to a game of environmental Paper, Stone and Scissors.

Look too at Clear Bush Beauty, a neat triptych of green and red native flowers and trees set against a clear blue ground. Another pretty picture that hints at reality sliding sideways. It's this sideways shift that constitutes Craig's other pictorial style. In a small adjoining room we discover a display of the artist's surreal images. These works offer the same well articulated subject matter, the same well constructed compositions, the same fine use of the medium as seen in all Craig's work but these images promote a timely message in a much louder voice.

Here we find a polished pipe tree, a brass zanthorea with delicate needles and a futuristic bush scene of Genetically Modified machine-like scrub and trees. Then there's Sunset Gold, a fascinating image that, like the other painted sunsets, offers a golden path across a rippling blue sea. However this yellow road hovers over the surface of the water and breaks up to look more like a dry river bed then a shimmering liquid reflection. Craig even draws images of sound waves, complete with tone and volume.

This is the artist's third solo show and I look forward to his forth where, hopefully, the pictorial style presented in the small anteroom will fill a larger gallery.